Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing’s latest expensive party began to take shape, and the regime leader continued to push his discredited election plans for next year.
Also this week, the junta’s ties with Russia deepened as the countries signed an MoU on nuclear power plants and Moscow offered to ramp up civilian education exchanges.
Many members of the U Thein Sein government have been appointed to the Myanmar Institute for Strategic and International Studies, a key junta foreign policy ‘think-tank’.